Tag: illustration

Stanley Borack

Illustrations by Stanley Borack

Born in Brooklyn, Stanley Borack served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and studied art at the Art Students League of New York under the G.I. Bill.  He began his career as professional illustrator in 1950 and, up until he retired at the end of the 1970s, he did hundreds of covers for pulp magazines and paperback book publishers.  Among collectors, he is especially known for the racy covers he did for Ted Mark’s Man From O.R.G.Y. series.  After retirement, his spent his remaining years doing painting of the Old West for fine art galleries across the country.

Leilani Bustamante

Leilani Bustamante, Title Unknown, Acrylic and Gouache on Panel

Born in Santa Rosa, California, and graduate of the Academy of Art University, Leilani Bustamante’s paintings combine symbolic portraiture with a mixture of  themes that take the viewer into strange realities and eerie fantasies. Integrating a sepia palette of acrylic and gouache on wood panel, the ghostly deities and creatures of nature possess a haunting beauty as thought-provoking as it is sensual.

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Jakob Bohme

Jakob Bohme, “Theosphische Wercke (Theosophical Work)”, 1682, Amsterdam

Jakob Bohme was a German mystic, philosopher and Christian theosophist. His influence was evident in Germany, the Netherlands and England, as well as in Sweden and Finland. Among the Quakers in the United States, he also found enthusiastic followers. In 1682, fifty-eight years after his death,  all of his works were published together for the first time. This image illustrates the wheel of properties of the seven planets.

Joe A. MacGown

Joe A. MacGown, “Biogenesis”, 2016, Colored Ink and Pen on Wood, 12 x 12 Inches

Joe MacGown is an an artist who was born in Maine, where his interest in insects and art began. At the age of ten, MacGown and his family moved to Mississippi where he continued his study of insects and drawing. After a short time at the Memphis College of Art, MacGowen was employed in 1988 at the Mississippi State Entomological Museum as a scientific illustrator and assistant curator.

In his current position at the Entomological Museum, MacGowen curates the Culicidae, Formicidae, and scarab collection as well as collects specimens for the collection, with hundreds of thousands personally pinned and labeled insects. He has conducted numerous surveys in threatened habitats of arthropod species. MacGown is in charge of all scientific drawings for researchers in the museum and assists with the identification of insects being studied. His entomological drawings are published in numerous books and papers.

Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson, “It Came from Krypton”

A prominent astrophysicist has pinned down a real location for Superman’s fictional home planet of Krypton. The celestial sleuthing was performed at the request of DC Comics, which wanted to run a story about Superman’s search for his home planet – Action Comics Superman #14, titled “Star Light, Star Bright”, November 7, 2012.

Krypton is found 27.1 light-years from Earth, in the southern constellation Corvus (The Crow), says Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City. The planet orbits the red dwarf star LHS 2520, which is cooler and smaller than our sun.

For amateur astronomers who want to spot the real star LHS 2520 in the night sky, here are its coordinates:

Right Ascension: 12 hours 10 minutes 5.77 seconds

Declination:  -15 degrees 4 minutes 17.9 seconds

Proper Motion: 0.76 arcseconds per year, along 172.94 degrees from due north

Mark Schultz

Mark Schultz, Cover Illustration, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs #1, November 1990, Epic Comics

Mark Schultz is an American writer and illustrator of books and comics. His most widely recognized work is his self-created and owned comic book series, “Xenozoic Tales”, about a post-apocalyptic world where dinosaurs coexiist with humans. He is currently the writer of the “Prince Valiant” comic striip. Schultz also created the underwaer adventure comics series “SubHuman”, published by Dark Horse Comics.

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Bernie Wrightson

Bernie Wrightson, Illustration for Batman Comics

Bernie Wrightson was an American artist. He was known for co-creating the creature “Swamp Thing”, his Frankenstein illustration work, and for his other horror comics and illustrations, which feature his trademark intricate pen and brush work known for its attention to detail. Wrightson also contributed character design for films, including creatures and aliens for “The Mist”, “Galaxy Quest”, and the original “Ghostbusters”.

Bernard Albert Wrightson was born in Dundalk, Maryland in 1948. He learned his craft from studying the work of other comics artists and from correspondence courses. His first published work was the 1969 “The Man Who Murdered Himself”, which appeared in the House of Mystery series from DC Comics. In 1974, Wrightson began work at Warren Publishing, producing original material and adaptions of Poe and Lovecraft stories.